Injured Officer Released

A Fort Lauderdale police officer shot early Saturday by a suspect in a purse snatching was released from Broward General Medical Center on Sunday.

The officer, David Wheeler, 29, a member of a police surveillance group, was shot in the forehead at close range in the incident at 12:23 a.m. Saturday.

Apparently by chance, the bullet that was fired at Wheeler contained ``snake shot,`` or relatively harmless small pellets, and was not a single slug. The stolen .38-caliber revolver also contained four bullets with slugs, police said.

Wheeler was treated for superficial head wounds and released Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The suspect, Ronald Cornelius Foster, 23, was shot and killed by another officer as he fled the scene, a police department spokesman said.